the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Galatians 1:11-24
What a happy thing it is for us to be able to place our whole confidence in God’s Word! If the gospel declared by Paul had been according to man, then yes, the Galatians would have been justified in accepting additions or modifications. But it was nothing of the sort. And to testify completely to the divine source of his ministry, the apostle recounts the extraordinary way in which it was entrusted to him. It was God who set him apart (v. 15), God who revealed His Son in him, God again who trained him in His school, without human instructors, in the Arabian desert. Above all, Christ had called him directly from heaven (Acts 9:1-43).
Paul, before his journey to Damascus, shows us that it is possible to be absolutely sincere while being absolutely the enemy of the Lord (John 16:2). But now, how dear to him was this church of God, formerly persecuted by him "beyond measure". Let us copy this devotion for the Lord and His own, this zeal to proclaim the faith (v. 23)! Notice, however, that before we are to speak to others of His Son, God is pleased to "reveal" Him in us (v. 16). He wants to produce in our hearts the sublime knowledge of Christ, in order that our witness for Him may flow out (2 Corinthians 4:6).
